ELLEN BARKIN - BARKIN'S MILLIONAIRE MARRIAGE MADE HER STRONGER

BARKIN'S MILLIONAIRE MARRIAGE MADE HER STRONGER

Actress ELLEN BARKIN's failed marriage to billionaire businessman Ronald Perelman helped her re-assess her life. The pair were married for seven years before splitting in 2006 - but the star has no regrets. She says, "It taught me you're never too old to get f**ked up and make big mistakes. I wasn't my best self, and I learned a lesson from that... "I grew up in a working-class environment and did just fine supporting myself. It gave me a very big gift in middle age, which is a kind of rediscovery of who I am. "That was the most expensive seven years of my life."